The White Sox finally got the road result they’d been chasing for weeks, and they did it in emphatic fashion. A seven-run third inning blew open a tight game at Camden Yards, turning a 1-1 matchup into a 9-3 win over the Orioles and snapping a seven-series losing streak on the road.
That third inning had the kind of damage that can flatten a ballgame in a hurry. Colson Montgomery got it started by jumping on a hanging 0-1 slider from Baltimore starter Trey Gibson and driving it to Eutaw Street for a two-run homer.
A few batters later, Junior Pérez followed with a first-pitch hanging curve and sent it just right of dead center for a three-run blast that capped the rally. Gibson never really recovered from the first swing, and the White Sox kept piling on until he couldn’t get through his own inning.
Before Pérez put the final exclamation point on it, the White Sox had already made Gibson pay for the traffic Montgomery created. Braden Montgomery drew a walk after Gibson got ahead 1-2, Chase Meidroth followed with a four-pitch walk, and Tristan Peters slapped a duck-snort single that advanced both runners.
Jacob Gonzalez then lined a single to left to push the lead to 5-1. Pérez’s homer made sure the inning belonged entirely to Chicago.
The win also wrapped up a second straight victory at Camden Yards, giving the White Sox a road series win for the first time since they took two of three in San Diego at the beginning of May. And by closing June with a victory, they finished their second consecutive winning month at 13-12.
Erick Fedde gave Chicago enough to work with, though the outing came with a reminder of why Will Venable has preferred an opener in front of him. Fedde wasn’t being squared up at a constant clip, but Baltimore did make him pay late. Samuel Basallo’s RBI single in the first inning was the only damage until Fedde’s final frame, when the Orioles started stacking hard contact.
Gunnar Henderson doubled with one out in the fifth, Dylan Beavers added a two-out double, and Pete Alonso followed with a 104-mph single to make it 9-3. That brought Basallo to the plate with Fedde one out from qualifying for the win.
Venable came out to the mound, but with a six-run cushion and the veteran right-hander just shy of the mark, he stayed in. Fedde fell behind 3-0 before getting Basallo to lift a fly ball to the center field warning track and close the at-bat, and the game.
Tyler Schweitzer then took over and made the decision look even better. He covered the final four innings on his own, which mattered because using Fedde as the second pitcher would likely have required another arm.
Baltimore made him work early with a pair of singles in a 17-pitch sixth, but Schweitzer settled in from there. He threw a 1-2-3 seventh on 15 pitches, then opened the eighth by erasing a first-pitch single with a first-pitch double play and getting out of the inning on just six pitches.
Venable sent him back out to finish it, and Schweitzer did.
That four-inning save was the sixth of its kind in baseball this season and the first for the White Sox since Matt Ginter in 2002. It also came with a practical downside for Schweitzer, who will probably head to Charlotte once Noah Schultz needs a roster spot to start on Wednesday.
There were a few other useful pieces in the box score. Kyle Teel started in place of Sam Antonacci, walked to begin the game, and scored the first run when Andrew Benintendi doubled him home from first in the opening inning. Teel didn’t appear to be running at full speed, but the ball got stuck in the right field corner and he came around anyway.
Gonzalez added the White Sox’s final run in the fourth, driving in Peters with an eighth-pitch double to right center off Josh Walker. That gives Gonzalez 17 RBIs in his first 24 games.
The victory also had a little help from Texas, which beat Cleveland 4-2 and moved the White Sox into a two-game lead in the AL Central. The turning point there came when Guardians left fielder Cooper Ingle threw the second out of the seventh inning into the stands for a two-base error, setting up the go-ahead run for the Rangers.
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